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Strange Country
Dapin, Mark

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A$34.99

Strange Country
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"This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failures. It is about heroes and legends, illusions, delusions and hope, and one or two men with shit for brains who ought to be locked up."

As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good Weekend knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes us on a journey through a very different Australia - a country that's eccentric, puzzling, big-hearted, small-minded, nostalgic and sometimes just plain mad.

From the last travelling boxing tent to feral urban sewer rats to Vietnam Veteran bikies and the annual Parkes Elvis Festival, his writing illuminates the stranger side of Australian life in a travel book like no other.

Author Information

Mark Dapin moved to Australia in the late 1980s. He has been editor in chief of ACP's men's magazines, and is a hugely popular columnist for Fairfax's Good Weekend. He lives in Sydney with his partner and two children.

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ISBN:
9781405038720

Binding:
Paperback

Pub. Date:
01/11/2008

Category:
Travel Writing

Imprint:
Pan Australia

Pages:
396 page/s

Stock:
Awaiting reissue

Price:
$34.99 AUD

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